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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 20.1964
De Gaulle Wants Atomic Power for France—
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And it was this at least in part which enabled De Gaulle on Jan. 14, 1963, to issue his declaration of independence, diminishing both United States and British influence on the continent of Europe and reciting that "France intends to have its national nuclear defense."
THE SOVIET UNION'S acquisition of a nuclear arsenal, he said, had completely changed the U.S. position.
U.S. nuclear strength, he said,
remains "the essential guarantee of world peace" . . . but . . . "no one in the world—particularly no one in America—can say if, where, when, how and to what extent the American nuclear weapons would be employed to defend Europe . . . France must have her own share in her own destiny."
The schism between De Gaulle and the United States and De Gaulle and Britain guaranteed that the Atlantic Treaty never again would be the same.
The terms of the treaty provide that it shall be revised in 1969.
BUT AMONG DIPLOMATS there is a growing belief that 1964 will be the year of decision, and for more reasons than De Gaulle.
The fear of a clash between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus already has weakened NATO defenses in the Eastern Mediterranean.
At the other end of the alliance, Britain faces a general election this year, with the Labor party given a strong chance to win.
Within the Labor party is a strong neutralist wing whose voice, though largely silent now, could at some time in the future contribute further to the weakness of NATO.
TO THE CLAMOR within NATO for a greater part in the control of its nuclear weapons, the United States has proposed a multi-nation naval force armed with the nuclear-tipped Polaris missile. It has been flatly rejected by France, received luke-warm by Britain and Italy, with only West Germany enthusiastically for it.
It is a political concept designed to still any future German desire for nuclear weapons of its own. Even in the U.S., military men frankly doubt that it is practical.
The always-apparent weaknesses of SEATO also have been enhanced by differences among its Western members.
SEATO is a consultative alliance and not, like NATO, equipped with a unified command.
With the exception of Malaysia, which is a British concern, responsibility for Southeast Asia's defense against Communist envelopment has been borne almost alone by the United States.
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U. S. ATTEMPTS to convert Laos into a pro-Western stronghold met oposition from both France and Britain who feared a head-on clash with Red China.
In the end, the United States was forced to write off its Laotian experiment as a $300 million failure and to accept for Laos a questionable neutrality.
De Gaulle is betting on a similar fate for the $1.5 million-per-day U.S. effort in South Vietnam. And with his recognition of Red China and advocacy of Vietnamese neutrality proposes to reinstate the French influence lost at Dien Bien Phu.
FAILURE TO ACHIEVE allied unity in Laos, led neighboring Thailand openly to question the value of its ties with SEATO.
Fear of similar results in South Viet Nam led Cambodian leader Norodom Sihanouk to renounce $30 million in annual aid from the United States and to seek his balance with Red China in renewed ties to France.
eagerly accepted. De Gaulle, without bothering to announce it, had withdrawn from SEATO, just as in effect he had from NATO. For De Gaulle SEATO already was dead.
For France it was an offer
And in the Philippines, a traditional U.S. ally in Southeast Asia, President Diosdado Macapagal took a whole new look at alliances.
THE SYSTEM OF military alliances, he decided is no longer a sufficient deterrent to the dangers facing Southeast Asia.
"... despite enormous expenditures for military aid in Southeast Asian countries, the maintenance and consolidation of national independence remain in grave danger..."
The danger to CENTO springs from the deep distrust between Pakistan and India and their dispute over Kashmir.
From this also springs Pakistani antagonism toward the United States.
Pakistan is dependent upon the United States both for military and economic support, and only last September won U.S. agreement for another $70 million loan.
But Pakistani president Ayub
as he finds them of "no use."
The weapons, he believes, eventually may be turned against Pakistan.
He has concluded a border agreement with Red China and a handful of other agreements including an exchange of landing rights for Pakistani and Red Chinese airliners.
SUA Jazz Forum to Have Midwestern Jazz Quintet
Bill Hargrave, leader and trumpet player of the group, is a former KU student. Hargrave's musical influences are varied, but in his playing, one can detect strains of trumpeters Nat Adderly, Kenny Dorham, and occasionally, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.
Altoist Herb Smith, Memphis, Tenn., junior, is the group's other horn player. Smith's playing has been heard around campus for the last three years.
The Midwestern Jazz Quintet, consisting of four students of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and one KU student, will provide the music. The group will feature several original compositions by members of the group in addition to tunes by Horace Silver, Miles Davis, and Curtis Amy.
And it was with special pleasure that early this year he received the Red Chinese announcement that it was abandoning a policy of neutrality toward the Kashmir dispute and siding with Pakistan.
Live music will be featured at the Student Union Activities Jazz Forum at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Khan has warned that he will quit his Western alliances as soon
Khan dislikes what he believes is growing U.S. tolerance for non-alignment as opposed to the Eisenhower-Dulles emphasis on alliances and especially he dislikes the military aid which the United States has poured into India for defense against Red China.
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